Dear LPG.

I am technically a cockney by birth and the other day I heard a very familiar song on the radio.  I am talking about the Chas and Dave song, ‘Rabbit’, which has always been one that makes me smile when I hear it and, please don’t ask me why but I found myself Googling the subject of talking too much.

I always knew that Rabbit meant talk in cockney rhyming slang, but I never actually understood the rhyming aspect of this one.  Well, I learned that the slang-word Rabbit is the shortened version of 'Rabbit and Pork' and, of course Pork rhymes with talk and there it is.  I googled a bit more…

I never cease to marvel at the information that can be found on the internet and just how much of it comes from America.  I discovered yet another bit of useless information on YouTube and hope that, for all the readers of this site who plan to travel abroad this year a short entertaining lesson on ’13 Weird Things People Believe In Different Countries’ might come in handy.  Check out fact number three in the list.

Did you know that, according to the Americans, English people consider it good luck to say, ‘Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit’ on the first day of the month?  Apparently we do this first thing in the morning on the first day of each month for good luck.  I now understand why I am so unlucky because I have never ever heard that one before even though I have lived in the UK all my life, but all knowledge is good isn’t it?

On a serious note, I think that talking is the best way to communicate, so I suggest that we all keep rabbiting on!

MC, Woolwich

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